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From: jye@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Jeffrey Chen, Cornell University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Very Very Unusual Problem
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.180409.214@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 90 22:04:09 GMT
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Here's a very, very, very, very unusual problem:

I installed via the installer System Software (SE/30 installation) 6.05
onto a FDHD floppy. I then copied Word 4.00B directly from the master disk
onto this floppy. Reboot the machine off the floppy. Launch Word.
Under "Character," I changed the font size to 127. I then proceeded to type
a few characters followed by a return.

Word displays: "Serious Problem: This document is too large for word to handle"

Note that this system has no Inits, cdevs, bells or whistles other than
plain vanilla System Software 6.05 (SE/30 Installation).

Quite obviously, it makes no sense for 5 characters to generate a "document
too large to handle" error.

I took this same disk and performed the same test on a friend's SE. No
problems.

The question: what's wrong with my SE/30? I recently had more memory installed.
Could it be that the SIMMS are bad? I don't recall ever having such an error
before.

Any comments would be appreciated. (A fix would be even MORE appreciated :) )

Jeff Chen
JYE@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
or JYE@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU